Tract of Sobarbe which has sometime born the Title of a Kingdom Ainzia a Tract in the County of Buchan in Scotland Aire Aturum the chief Town of Gascoine and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Aux it stands upon the River Adour in the Borders of the County of Armagnac four Aquitane Leagues above S. Sever and sixteen from Bajonne Aire Aria called by the Flandrians Arien by the Spaniards Ere it is a strong City in Artois seated in a Marsh upon the River Leye which falls into the Scheld at Gaunt taken by the French in 1641. and presently recovered by the Spaniards but it was retaken â— the French in 1676. and is now in their possession by the Treaty of Nimeguen It is 12 Leagues from Bologn to the East Aire Aeria by the Scotch Ayr is a small City and Sheriffdom in Scotland upon Dunbritain-Frith on the West of that Kingdom it stands 22 Scotch Miles from Donbritoun South-West Airu a River of Scotland which springs from the Mountains of Mar and unites with the Spei in Buchan The City Aire stands upon it Airy Airiacum a Village in Burgundy in Auxerrois near Clamecy Here was a National Council held in 1020. under Pope Benedict VIII Aisaâ—ce a small River in Normandy which joyns the Colsnon below d'Autrain Aisne Axona a River of France riseth in the Dukedom of Barois and flowing through the Provinces of Champagne and the Territory of Argonne and that of Soissons cuts the City of Soissons in two parts and at last ends in the River Oise a little East of Compeigne in the Isle of France Aix Aquae Sextiae a City of Provence in France It was a Roman Colony and is now an Archbishops See and the Seat of the Parliament of that Province a fair growing Town seated in a large Plain upon a small Rivolet about 15 Leagues from Arles and 13 from Avignon to the East Aix in Savoy an antient City at the foot of the Mountains between Chambery Annecy and Rumilly giving the Title of a Marquess It is famous for Mineral Waters Aix la Chapelle Aquisgranum called by the Germans Aaâ—b by the Dutch Aken by the French Aix by the Italians Aquisgrana it is an Imperial free City of Germany in the Circle of Westphalia within the Borders of the Dukedom of Juliers under which Prince it now is Charles the Great of France died here Jan. 24. 814. and here he was buried having been the Restorer of this City after Attila the King of the Huns had ruin'd it It was almost intirely ruin'd by Fire again in 1656. but is now rebuilding In 1658. there was a famous Peace made here between the present Kings of France and Spain Divers Councils have been held here This City stands 8 German Miles from Cologn 7 from Liege in a low place almost incircled with Hills Aizu a Province of Japan with a Town of the same Name which is one of the best in the Country Akerhuys a Sea-port Town in the County of Aggerhuys not above 15 Miles from Christianstadt in Norway Akerman Alba a City of Moldavia Akersondt an Island belonging to Norway in the German Ocean over against the Cape of Shagen Akertewe a City in the Isle of Maragnan on the Coast of Brasil Akill Achill Achillia a small Island on the Coast of Connaught in Ireland over against the County of Mayo Akroczim a City in the Palatinate of Mazovia in Poland fortifyed with a Castle Aksteede Acsteda a small City upon the River Lun in the Dutchy of Bremen in Saxony under the Swedes Akza a River of Georgia in Asia Al a River of Prussia believed by some to be the Guttalus of Pliny Alahanda See Eblaba Alacranes Islands infested with Scorpions in the New America 20 Leagues from Jucutan Aladuli the Turkish Name of Armenia major Alagon a River of Spain in the Province of Estremadura and Kingdom of Leon it falls into the Taio a little above Alcantara as Rodericus Sylva saith Alaine a small River in the Province of Nivernois in France Alais Alesia a City of Languedoc upon the River Guerdon at the foot of the Mountain Cevennes 10 Leagues from S. Esprit to the East Alalcomene Alalcomenium an antient City of Boeotia famous for a Statue of Minerva and the Tomb of Tiresias Afterwards call'd Ithaca says Plutarch and the Birth-place of Vlysses Alan a small River in Cornwal in England it falls into the Irish Sea at Padstow at the Head of it is a small Village called Camelford where King Arthur is reported to have been slain in Battel Padstow lies about 17 Miles West from Launceston Aland an Island of the Baltick Sea at the entrance of the Botner Sea under the Dominion of the King of Sweden Alar a River of Persia in Hyrcania falling into the Caspian Sea Alarcan Illarco a Town in New Castile in Spain Alares an antient People of Pannonia Tacit. Alaschâ—hir Hipsius Vpsu an antient City of Phrygia and sometime the See of a Suffragan Bishop Alatri Alatrium Alatrinum a City of Campania in Italy and a Bishops See dependent immediately on the Pope Mentioned by the Antients Alava a small Territory in Biscay in Spain Alba or Albe Alba Pompeia a City of Monferrat upon the River Tangro it is an Episcopal See under the Archbishop of Millan heretofore subject to the Duke of Mantua but taken from him in 1631. by a Treaty of Peace and ever since under the Duke of Savoy This City of latter times having suffered great changes is reduced into a consumptive State for want of Inhabitants It is distant from Aste 12 Miles to the South Albana a City of Albania in Asia with a Port to the Caspian Sea Albania an antient Province upon the Caspian Sea in Asia Westward now call'd Zuirie under the Turks § Also a Province of Turkey in Europe which was antiently the Western part of Macedonia and part of Illyrium upon the Adriatique Ocean reduced under the Dominion of the Turks by Mahomet 2. It s chief Cities are Croia Durazzo c. The Inhabitants for the most part are Christians of the Greek Church Albany Albania call'd in Scotland Braid-Albin is a Dukedom in the highest part of Scotland as the Name imports the Seat of the Old Scots upon the declining Western part of Mount Grampus next Lorn and Argile Charles I. in his Infancy at two years of age was created Duke of Albany This Title was also conferred on the Lord Darnly his Grandfather and given by Charles I. to his Second Son afterwards James II. Albano Alba Longa the Mother of Rome from which it lies about 12 Miles It has been ruin'd many Ages It stood betwixt a Lake and a Mountain of the same Name There has been another Albano built near its Ruines which is a Bishops See a Principality and the Title of a Cardinal § Also a City with the Title of a Principality in the Kingdom of Naples Albanopolis an antient City of Macedonia in Greece Alba Julia. See Weissenburg
first to appear to the Blessed Virgin after his Resurrection called the Chappel of the Apparition the Rock out of which his Sepulchre was hewn and the Tomb itself illuminated with 62 Lamps that burn continually Here are the Tombs of Godfrey of Bouillon the first King of Jerusalem and Baldwin I. his Brother who succeeded him in that Crown Calvi Cales a small City in the Terra di Lavoro in the Kingdom of Naples 6 Miles North of Capoua which tho it has not much above 20 Houses is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Capoua It withstood a Siege against the French and Turks in 1555. the Antients called it Cales § a Town in the Island of Corsica with a Port and a considerable Fortress to the Gulph of the same name under the Genouese Calydon an antient City of Aetolia in Greece sometime adorned with an Episcopal See and the Title of the Capital of the Country giving Name to a Forest therein § Also the antient Appellation of a part of Scotland towards the County of Perth in which Dunkeld stands see Dunkeld The same continuing to the Northern Sea to this Day Calydoni a little Castle in the Vicentine in Italy whence a Noble Family of Vicenza derives their Name Calzada Calciata a small City in old Castile in Spain once a Bishops See which is now removed to Calahorra from whence it lies 12 Spanish Leagues to the West It is sometimes called S. Domingo de la Calzada from the great Devotion of People to S. Dominick there Henry II. King of Castile dyed here in the year 1379. Calzan Calzun the Arabian Gulph Camala Emisa See Hama Camarina an antient Town of the Island of Sicily built in the year of Rome 150. according to Eusebius and long since ruined leaving only its name to a River in the same Island It s situation near the purulent Lake of Camerina obliging the Inhabitants to drain that Lake up whereby the Enemy obtained a Passage to take the Town occasioned the known Proverb Camarinam movere Camb or Kamp Cambus a River of the Upper Austria in Germany springing towards the Frontiers of Bohemia and ending in the Danube Cambaia the Capital of the Kingdom of Guzurat and a noble Port lying in a very great Bay of the same Name now subject to the great Mogul the City lies in Long 105. Lat. 22. 30. and is one of the greatest the richest the best traded Cities in the East-Indies seated in a fruitful Soil and full of People commonly called the Cairo of the Indies whence the Kingdom of Guzerate is often named the Kingdom of Cambaia It is walled with a fair Wall of Free-stone hath very large Houses straight and broad Streets greater than Surat being ten Leagues in compass and hath 3 Basars or Market places and 4 noble Tanks or Cisterns able to find the Inhabitants Water all the year tho there is 7 fathom Water in the Haven at high water yet at low water the Ships lie dry in the Sand and Mud which cover the bottom of it The Inhabitants are partly Heathens partly Mahometans And in 1638. the English had here a Factory as Mandelslo acquaints us from whom the latter part of this Description is taken Cambala a City in China See Peking some represent it to be 24 Italian Miles in compass Cambalu is the Mascovian and Saracen Name for it Peking the Indian Cambaya Camboya or Camboge a Kingdom in the East-Indies over against the Isle of Borneo bounded on the West with the Kingdom of Siam and on the East with that of Cochin It is Tributary to the King of Siam This Kingdom is almost equally divided by a vast River which in July and August overflows all the Country as the Nile doth Egypt The King of it is a great Friend to the Portuguese as he of Siam is to the Dutch Upon the most Eastern Branch for there are 3 of the River mentioned before stands Cambodia the principal City built upon a rising Ground to prevent the yearly Deluges This Kingdom is extream fruitful but not potent the King not being able to bring above 25 or 30000 Men into the Field first discoverd by Alphonso d'Albuquerque in 1511. as Mandelslo saith Cambodia lies in Long. 135. 00. Lat. 10 35. Cambray Cameracum called by the Flandrians Camerick a City of Hainault upon the Schold Guicciardin saith it is a great fair strong City and has a strong Castle built by Charles V. That it abounds in excellent publick Buildings especially the Cathedral is very great and beautiful that it is populous and rich and was a very antient Bishoprick under the Archbishop of Rhemes but in 1559. exempted by Pope Paul IV. and erected into an Archbishoprick The first place the French possessed themselves of after they came out of Germany in 1445. After this it became an Imperial City and continued so till Charles V. in 1543. built a Cittadel in it and annexed it to his own Dominions The French who all along pretended a Right to it at last in 1677. took it by force after a sharp defence The Archbishops are honored with the style of Dukes of Cambray Earls of Cambresis and Princes of the Empire Cambresis is a considerable Territory betwixt Picardy Flanders Artois and Hainault extreamly fruitful and adorned with a Castle of its own Name in which Henry II. of France and the King of Spain Celebrated that Treaty of Peace in 1559. which the French say was most disadvantageous to them It lies 4 Leagues from Doway South in Long. 26. 06. Lat. 49 45. Cambria the antient Name of the Principality of Wales more especially of the Western part thereof towards Ireland Cambridgeshire hath on the East Suffolk and Norfolk on the West Huntington and Bedford on the South Hartford and on the North Lincolnshire the River Ouse divides it almost in the midst Towards the South end of the County lies the Town which gives it its Name Mr. Camden saith it is called Camboritum being seated upon the East Bank of the River Cam which is here passed by a Bridge This is one of the antientest and noblest Universities in Christendom having 16 Colleges and Halls endowed or Nurseries in it of Piety and Learning the most antient of which is Peter House founded in 1257. by Hugh Balsham a Sub-Prior before which time there was only Hostels wherein the Scholars maintained themselves This place sends 4 Burgesses to the Parliament 2 for the Town and 2 for the University It has been dignified with the Title of an Earldom in several eminent Persons and lately of a Dukedom in 4 Sons of King James II. when Duke of York who all dyed very young Long. 21. 49. Lat. 52. 30. § The English have given the Name of Cambridge to a Town in New England also situated upon the River Merrimick and beautified with several fair Streets besides 2 Colleges in which they aim at the Figure of an University Camelford a Market-Town in the County of Cornwal in
then a Marquisate It now makes a part of the Kingdom of Bohemia and is supposed to take its name from the River Morawi Morave or die Mahr Morus or Marus arising near to Altstadt in Bohemia and joyning with the Danube at Haynbourg in Austria being the same River with the precedent Morava The Capital of it is Olmutz and the other principal Towns are Brin Iglaw and Znaim It is a fruitful and pleasant Country extremely well improved Morbiban Morbibanum a large Haven on the North side of the Lesser Bretagne in France seven Leagues from Port Lovis to the East and near Vannes Above thirty small Islands lye in the Gulph of this harbour The Morduates a Province in the North-Eastern Parts of the Empire of Russia towards the River Rha between the Czeremisses to the East and Wolodimera to the West It is a Country of great Extent and made terrible by its vast unpassable Woods and Forests More or Moore an Episcopal City in the County of Mayo in Connaught in Ireland Morea Peloponnesus a celebrated great and fruitful Peninsula of Greece of about five hundred and fifty Miles in circuit It s extent from Corinth in the North-East to Cape Sapienza in the South is one hundred and fifty Miles its breadth from Cape di Schilli to Cape Tornese on the West one hundred and seventy five Containing the Provinces of Romania Sacania Belvedore and Clarentia and the famous Cities of Corinth Coron Clarenza Patras Misitra Nauplia c. It s principal Rivers are the Orfea and the Iris or Basilipotamo Its Mountains Mynthe Stymphalis Pholoe Lyceus c. are mentioned in the Writings of the Ancients This Country was first intirely conquered by the Macedonians after the Death of Alexander the Great then by the Romans under L. Mummius about one hundred and forty six years before the Birth of our Saviour when Corinth the then Capital of this Province was intirely ruined In the later times of the Greek Empire it had Despotes or Princes of its own who were subject to the Emperors of Constantinople the last of which Thomas Palaeologus was driven out of his Dominions by Mahomet II. in 1543. Ever since it has been in the Hands of those Destroyers of Mankind But in 1685 the Venetians began the Reconquest and in 1687 were intirely possessed of it excepting only Malvasia by a wonderful Revolution And in September 1690. they recovered Malvasia also Moret Murittum a Town in the Territory of Gastinois in the Isle of France upon the River Loing adorned with the title of an Earldom A Synod was held there in 850. Morgaâ— Margus a River of Bactria a Province of Persia which springing from the Mountains of Chorazan and flowing through the Country called by their Name falls into the River Obengir which ends in the Caspian Sea Morin Muera a River of France in the Province of Le Brie which watereth Colomiers Coâ—lumbaria and Cressy then falls into the Marne beneath Meaux this is called the Great Morin to distinguish it from another which falls into the Marne in the same Province beneath La Ferte sous Jovare to the West of Meaux Morini a People of Gallia Antiqua mentioned by Pliny and Virgil. The latter styles them Extremique hominum Morini c. It is supposed with greatest probability that they dwelt in the now Dioceses of S. Omer Boulogne and Ypres Morlaix Morlaeum Mons relaxus a City in the Province of Bretagne upon a River of the same Name which has a Harbor on the North Shore of that Province It stands about two Leagues from the British Sea and forty from Rennes to the West over against Plymouth There is â— Fort built to secure the Passage of the River in an Island of the River The Town stands upon an Hill betwixt two Plains and shows the Ruines of an old Cittadel Mormandes Milmandra a River of France in Le Berry Morpeth a considerable Market and Borough Town in the County of Northumberland upon the River Wensbeck The Capital of its Ward fortified with a Castle returning two Members of Parliament and giving the Title of Viscount to the Earl of Carlisle Mortagne Moritania a small Town in the Territory of Tournaysis in Flanders at the Confluence of the Rivers Escaut and Scarpe towards Valenciennes two or three Leagues from Tournay It has formerly been fortified § Also a large handsome and populous Town in the Vpper Perche in France towards the borders of Normandy upon a Stream which there begins to form the River Huisne This Mortagne is now adorned with a Castle § There is a third of the Name in the Province of Poictou towards the Confines of Bretagne at the reception of the Loing by the River Seâ—â—re Nantoise Mortain Moritonium Moritolium a small Town in Normandy near the River Ardee towards the Confines of La Mayne betwixt Auranches and Domfront which by Henry I. King of England and Duke of Normandy was given with the Title of an Earldom to his Nephew Stephen Blois afterwards in 1135. King of England whose second Son william enjoy'd the same Title in the next Succession But William died without Issue This Town by ancient Custom in publick Processions carries a naked Sword in the place of a Standard Mortanâ— Mortana a River in Lorain Mortara or Mortare Mortaria Pulchra Sylva a strong great populous Town in the Dukedom of Milan upon the River Gogna four Miles from Vigevano to the North-West ten from Novara to the South-East and twenty four from Pavia to the West Anciently called Bella or Pulchra Sylva the Beautiful Wood but upon the great Slaughter of the Lombards by the Forces of Charles the Great when he took Desiderius their King Prisoner in 774 it took the Name of Mortara which signifies Slaughter or Death This Town was taken by the French in 1658. and put under the Duke of Modena In 1660. it was upon a Peace restored back to the Spaniards It is the Capital of the Territory of Lumellina Le Moruan Morundia Morvinus tractus a mountainous Tract or Territory in the Dukedom of Burgundy of small extent and its Limits not well known Mor Verridh the Welsh name of the Irish Sea Mosa the Meuse See Maes Mosambich Mosambica a City of Zanguebar on the Eastern Coast of Africa in an Island near the Continent at the Mouth of a River of the same name which there falls into the Aethiopick Ocean To this City belongs a strong Castle and a safe Harbour all in the Possession of the Portuguese Long. 63. 40. South Lat. 14. â—â— Moscow Moscoua Moschia the Capital of the Empire of Moscovy or Russia called by she Inhabitants Mosqua by the European Strangers Moscow by the Poles Moscouf by the Germans Moscaw One of the greatest Cities in Europe extremely frequented on the score of Trade and the common Residence of the Great Duke or Czar of Moscovy It stands upon a River of the same name which a little more to the East falls into the Occa or
Name from Pole which signifies a Plain in the Sclavonian Tongue Bounded on the North by the Baltick Sea the Swedish Livonia and Russia by the last and the Desarts of Tartary on the East on the South by the Vpper Hungary Transylvania and Walachia on the West by Germany This Kingdom is of a round Figure two thousand six hundred Miles in compass The Earth plain but full of Woods which do in some degree rectifie the Coldness of the Air. They have no Wine as for Barley and Pulse they have more than they spend The People are Industrious and Learned good Souldiers proud and prodigal The Christian Faith was first settled in Poland under Miceslaus in the year 963. by one Meinardus The Reformation about 1535. crept into these Countries but never generally imbraced nor persecuted The Greek Church has some footing here too but the most general is the Roman Catholick This vast Kingdom is divided into thirty four Palatinates most of which I shall mention in their proper places The principal Cities are Belzko Braclaw Braslaw Briescie Kaliss Kaminiec Chelmo Krakow Elbing Dantzick Gnesna Kiow Lenzycze Lwow Lublin Lucko Malbork Mscislawau Minsko Novogrod Plocko Pozan Przemisl Konigsberg Sendomiers Siracz Thorn Trocko Warzawa commonly called Warsaw the Capital of Poland Wilna Witebsko and Wlodzimiers The first Duke of this Kingdom was Lechus who began his Reign in 694. His Posterity in eleven Descents continued till 800. when Priastus was the first elected Duke In the year 1000. Boleslaus Son of Mieceslaus received the Title of King from Otho III. Emperour of Germany The present King is the forty sixth Prince and the thirty second King of Poland who has had the Honour to be the Preserver of Christendom by the Relief of Vienna and many other brave Actions Though this Prince has the Name of a King and the first Dukes were in truth Kings without the Title yet at present he is nothing less being not allowed to make Peace or War to impose Taxes make Laws alienate any of his Demeans or in short to do any thing of Importance which concerns the Publick without the consent of the Diet. He does not only swear to do all this but allows their Disobedience in case he violates his Oath which makes the Subjects the Princes Judges and this Kingdom a meer Aristocracy or knot of petty Kingdoms under one Head Whence the Tartars and Muscovites have reaped great advantages and the King of Sweden once with forty thousand men reduced this Country to the last extremity which otherwise accounts two hundred thousand men a small Army to be sent into the Field by Poland Socinianism hath been a prevailing Sect here it oweth its denomination to the two Socinus's Laelius and Faustus Natives of this Kingdom who in the last Century amidst the distractions of people about Religion revived the ancient assertions of Arius Nestorius c. called Heresies under their own Names There is besides a general mixture of Roman and Greek Catholicks Jews Calvinists Lutherans Anabaptists c. Polaquie Polachia a small Province in the Kingdom of Poland between Mazovia to the West Lithuania and Polesia to the East The principal Town of which is Bielka Pole Pola a Province on the East of Moscovy towards the River Tanais between Mordua Rezania and the Kingdom of Astracan in which there is no City or Town of Note Polesie Polesia a Province of Poland in the great Dukedom of Lithuania extended from East to West between Red Russia Volhinia Mazovia and the Palatinate of Novogrod The principal Town is Brescie twenty five Miles from Lublin and thirty from Warsaw to the East This Province is extremely over-run by Woods and full of Bogs and Marshes Policastro Policastrum Polaeocastrum a City in the Kingdom of Naples in the Hither Principate on the Shoars of the Tyrrhenian Sea fifty five Miles from Salerno to the North-East It is now almost desolate yet a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Salerno and gives Name to a Bay formerly called Sinus Laus Polignano Polinianum Pulinianum a small City in the Province of Bari in the Kingdom of Naples which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Bari Polina Aous one of the principal Rivers of Albania it ariseth ten Miles above Apollonia an ancient City now called Pollina and falls into the Adriatick Sea Others call it Piergo Near this River Philip King of Macedon received a great Overthrow from the Romans on which account it is mentioned by divers Historians Polizzi Politium a great Town in Sicily built upon an Hill six Miles from Nicosia and twenty from Palermo Pollina or Periergo Apollonia a City of Macedonia now in Albania upon the Adriatick Sea Heretofore a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Durazzo but now a Metropolitan See it self Seated thirty five Miles from Durazzo to the South and inhabited by a small number of Men under the Dominion of the Turks In this place Octavianus afterwards Augustus was at his Studies when Julius Caesar his Uncle was Murthered in the Senate Long. 45. 06. Lat. 40. 19. â—oloczko or Polloczki Poloczka Polocia Polotium a City of Lithuania in the Kingdom of Poland the Head of a Palatinate which was once a Dukedom It stands upon the Dwina where it receives the Polotta having upon each River a Castle seventy five Polish Miles above Riga to the South-East and fifty five from Vilna to the North-East Taken by the Russ in 1563 retaken by Stephen King of Poland in 1579. Of later times it changed its Master again but is now under the Poles Pologne See Poland Pomeiok an Indian Town and River in Virginia upon the North Sea Pomerania a Province of Germany called by the Inhabitants Pomeren by the Poles Pomerska It lies in the Upper Circle of Saxony bounded on the North by the Baltick Sea on the East by Prussia on the South by the Marquisate of Brandenburgh and on the West by the Dukedom of Mecklenburgh Extended upon the Baltick Sea from East to West two hundred English Miles A plain and fruitful Country yielding great plenty both of Corn and Grass Butter and Cheese c. full of People of a vigorous Constitution This Country in 1295 was given by Mestovius the last of its Princes to Primislaus King of Poland who enjoyed all the Eastern part as far as Prussia and the River Weyssel or Vistula The rest continued under Princes of its own till 1637 when Bugius the last of them dying without Heirs Males this great Country by the Treaty of Munster was divided between the Swedes and the Duke of Brandenburgh All that lay on the West of the Oder and the Dukedom of Stetin being left to the Swedes together with Rugen an Island in the Baltick Sea and Dam and Golnow two Towns beyond the Oder The further or more Eastern Pomerania and Prussia was granted to the Duke of Brandenburgh There is in this vast Country under the Swedes these Cities Anclam Gripswald Stetin Stralsund and Wolgast and under the
the Name of their King Charles X. The Danes took it in 1676. but they yielded it to the Swedes again in 1679. according to the Treaty of Fointainebleau Catmagnole a strong Town in the Marquisate of Saluces in Piedmont about 2 Miles from the Po and 9 from Turin in the Dominions of the Duke of Savoy ever since Charles Emanuel Duke of Savoy during the Civil Wars of France made himself Master both of the Marquisate and it in 1588. and that the same were ceded to him by a Treaty of Peace in 1601. This Town has been taken by the French and retaken by the Confederates in this present War Carmarthenshire See Carmarthen Carmel Carmelus a Mountain in the Holy Land or Palestine upon the Mediterranean Sea 50 Miles North of Jerusalem betwixt Galilee and Samaria in the Tribe of Issachar about 30 Miles in Circuit deliciously covered and adorned with Trees Plantations Springs Villages Valleys and Caverns which have been the retreats of the solitary in all Ages Now inhabited by the Drâ—sians a Warlike People who are supposed to be the Relicks of the European Pilgrims and accordingly pay as little deference to the Port as they can There is a Monastery belonging to the Carmelites here whose whole Order derives their Name from the place These carmelites regard the Prophets Elias and Elisha as their Patriarchs whose 2 Grots with the Fountain that sprung miraculously up at the Prayers of Elias now under the keeping of a Mahometan Anchorite are much honored as well by Turks Moors and Arabs as the Jews and Christians The Prophet Agabus they say built a Chappel upon this Mountain in the year 83. a small part thereof being yet extant In the time of the Emperor Vespasian there was a Temple of an Oracle here so famous that Vespasian came in Person to consult it Possibly it was some remains of the Idol of Baal or Beelzebub that they used heretofore to adore in Acre a Town below at the foot of the Mountain The Prince of it pays yearly to the Turks for Tribute 12 Horses Carnarvan See Caernarvanshire Curnia Acarnania a Province in Epirus over-against the â—sle of Corfu or Cephalonia Carniola called by the Dutch Krain has Slavonia on the East Friuli on the West Carinthia and part of Sâ—eirmark North and Istria South fruitful in Corn and Wine this and Carinthia both belong to the House of Austria by descent to which they give the Title of a Duke The Inhabitants are part Sclavonians and part Germans its Capital City Laubach This Country was a Branch of the antient Carnia Carolina a Plantation of the English Quakers upon the Continent of North America which has its Name from Charles II. It lies between the Lat. of 29. and 36. deg being the most Northern part of Florida Tho the English began to plant it only since 1663. yet being extremely fruitful and temperate the Inhabitants are already very numerous and have built 2 considerable Town Charles Town and Albermarle This Country is bounded to the South by Florida to the North by Virginia to the West by the Apulathean Hills which are exceeding steep and high and to the East by the Atlantick Ocean The Colonies are endeavouring to improve it to Wine and Oil which the English chiefly want Carolstadt Carolostadium a Town in Croatia built by Charles Archduke of Austria and well fortified against the Turks seated at the confluence of the Kulp and the Mereswiz 2 German Miles from Meteling to the North-East the Governour of Croatia always resides here There is another of the same Name in the Bishoprick of Wurtzburg upon the Maine 3 German Miles North of Wurtzburg And a Third in Sweden in the Province of Westrogrothia built by Charles IX upon the Lake Wever which suffered much by the Danes in 1644. Carpathus See Scarpanto Hence the Carpathian Sea now called the Sea of Scarpanto betwixt the Islands of Rhodes and Candia derived its Name Carpenterland a vast Country in the Terra Australis of America lately discovered by one Carpenter a Dutchman who has left it his Name Carpentras Carpentoracte a City in Provence in France which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Avignon and the Capital of the County of Venacin under the Dominion of the Pope 4 Leagues from Avignon to the North-East It stands upon a very well watered Soil Caesarius Bishop of Arles presided at a Council here in 527. in the Papacy of Foelix IV. Long 25. 49. Lat. 43. 18. Carpi Carpum a small City in Lombardy in Italy with a Castle and Principality belonging to the Duke of Modena It has a large Territory to it and a Collegiate Church built first by Aistulphus one of the Kings of the Lombards who died about 750. Rebuilt by Albertus Pius who was then Prince of Carpi with greater magnificence and is exempted from the Jurisdiction of all the Neighbour Bishops who have any Pretensions to it by the Decrees of Julius II. and Leo X. This City lies 4 Leagues from Modena to the North. Carrara a small Town in the Province of Tuscany in Italy between Massa and Sarsina belonging to the Prince of Massa with the Title of a Principality Carrhae an antient City of Mesopotamia upon the River Charra remarkable in History for the Defeat of Crassus by the Parthians in the year of Rome 701. It has had the honor to be a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Edessa This is the Charan mentioned in the Story of the Patriarch Abraham Carriek-Fergus See Knock-Fergus Carrict Carricta a small Bailywick or Earldom in the West of Scotland which has Dumbritain-Fryth to the West and North Nithisdale to the East and Galloway to the South It is fruitful and supplyed both by Sea and Land with all the necessaries of Life The Earldom belongs now to the Prince of Scotland Cars See Chars Carthago Carthage call'd by the Grecians 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 was once the most famous and potent City in Africa and the Rival of Rome generally supposed to be built by Queen Dido a Tyrian Princess An. Mundi 3725. 72 years after Rome 874 years before the Birth of our Saviour But then Justin makes it to be built before Rome and Appian before the Ruin of Troy and this is now thought the more probable Opinion The Learned Vossius in his Book de Magnitudine Vrbium is confident that it was not only built before the Trojan War but in its greatest Dignity Extent and Power before that time and that Dido was only the Repairer of it and that it was much older than Tyre itself But however certain it is that it was a Phaenician Colony It subjected by degrees not only all Lybia but a great part of the adjacent Islands and the greatest part of Spain and Sicily It sustained 3 sharp Wars with Rome the first lasted 24 years the second 18 and had ended in the Ruin of Rome if the Carihaginians had but supplied their General effectually and in time The third lasted
the Isle of Owen nine Miles from Coldagh to the East Loughabrin Loughaber see Loquabre Louisiane a large Country South West of New France in America lately discovered by the French as far as to the Mouth of the River Colbert in the South Sea and so called in honour of their present King Lewis XIV They report it to enjoy a very fruitful Clime for Wine Corn Fruits Fish and Fowl Lowe East and West two Market and Borough Towns in the County of Cornwall in the West Hundred both upon the South Sea and both having the Election of two Burgesses for the Parliament Lowitz Lovitium a small but well built and populous Town of the Greater Poland upon the River Bsura in which the Archbishop of Gnesna has a noble and strong Castle seated in a Marsh built by Jarowslaws one of those Archbishops in which the rest of his Successors have for the most part resided it is in the Palatinate of Rava between Vladislaw to the North and Rava to the South five Polish Miles from the latter and six from Ploczko to the South-West Le Loup Lupus a River in Provence in France There is another of the same Name in Lionnois which falls into the Adour Lourdes Lorda a City of France in Bigorre Louses Loutosa a place or Town in the Diocess of Troyes in France Louth Lutum Loutha a small Town in the Province of Leinster in the County of Louth upon a River of the same Name between Dundalk to the North and Ardrac to the South seven Miles from either The County of Louth lies in Leinster or rather Vlster bounded on the East by the Irish Sea on the North by Downe on the West by Armagh and Monaghan and on the South by Fingall in Leinster § There is called by this Name a Market Town also in Lincolnshire in the Hundred of Loutheask Louvaine Louvanium a great City in Brabant in the Low Countries called by the Inhabitants Loeven by the Spaniards Lobayna by the Italians Lovanio and by the French Louvaine It stands upon the River Dele which a little lower falls into the Demer which last falls into the Schelde at Rupelmondel four Miles from Mechlen to the South-East eight from Namur to the North and the same distance from Antwerp to the South-East In 1427. there was an University opened here by John Duke of Brabant others make it to have been Founded by another John Duke of Brabant in 926. The Popes Martin V. and Eugenius IV. granted it great Privileges It has thriven very well here being more than twenty Colleges founded by several Persons for the incouragement and promotion of Learning very magnificent and well governed to which belong the publick Schools which are very magnificent This City is four Miles in compass within the Walls seated in a very fruitful Soil and has so gentle and pleasant an Air that Wine is made both within the Walls and without It is so very ancient that its Original is supposed to have been before the Roman Conquest by Julius Caesar and has been several times enlarged The Walls it now has were built in 1361. There are within these Walls saith L. Guicciardin great Meadows beautiful Vineyards rare Orchards and Gardens and all manner of Conveniences which shews that it is not overstocked with Inhabitants This Town is still under the Spaniards and has about it a District called the Quartier de Louvaine which is one of the four Jurisdictions of Brabant The Dukes of Brabant used to take the Title of Earls of Louvain Long. 26.00 Lat. 50.54 Lovat Lowa Chesinus a River of Russia which falls into the Lake of Ilmen on the Borders of Livonia This Lake disburthens it self into that of Ladoga by a River which passeth on the East of the City Novogorod Louwenborch See Lawenburg Le Louvre the King of France his Royal Palace in Paris Lowther a River of the County of Westmorland joining with the Eamont at Whinfield Forrest upon the Banks whereof is Lowther-Hall the Seat of the Family of the Lowthers who for thirty Descents lineally from Father to Son have flourished here The Park belonging to this Seat the Parish and the Bridge over the River have the same Name Loylandt one of the Shetland Islands on the North of Scotland Lubanskerzee Lubanius a Lake in Livonia on the Confines of Poland near the Town of Luban near twenty Miles from Dunenburgh to the North. Lubeck Lubeca Lubecum a Great City in Germany in the Circle of the Lower Saxony in the Dukedom of Holstein which has been a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Bremen ever since the year 1162. when the Chair was Translated hither from Oldenburgh It is a celebrated Mart and one of the principal Hans Towns upon the River Trave in the Territory of Wagria of which it is the Capital about three Miles from the Baltick Sea to the South upon which it has a great and a safe Harbor It was at first a very small Town enlarged to a considerable City by Adelph Count of Holstein under Conrad III. Emperor of Germany In the year 1209. the Danes being beaten out of it it was made a Free Imperial City by Frederick II. Seated in the Limits of the Dukedom of Mecklenburg and Lawenburg ten German Miles from Hamburg to the East and as many from Wiesmar to the West In 1238. it hapned to be almost totally consumed by Fire In 1500. they defended their Liberties by Arms against the King of Denmark which War broke out again in 1509. when the Suedes took their part They had the same Privileges confirmed to them by the Emperor Charles the Fifth at the Diet of Ausburgh in 1547 which before were granted them by Frederick II. This City embraced the Augustane Confession in the year 1561. In 1562. they begun a War with the King of Sweden which lasted till 1570. The Bishoprick is settled in Appenage to the younger Sons of the House of Holstein Gothorp the Chapter having only an umbrary Election left to them they are called Dukes of Oytin from a small Town four German Miles and an half from Lubeck to the North where they for the most part reside which was given these Bishops by Adolph Count of Holstein before the See was removed from Oldenburg to Lubeck In this Town there was a Peace concluded between the Emperor and the King of Denmark in the year 1629. It is governed in the manner of a Republick and observes a strict Alliance with Holland Long. 32.45 Lat. 54.48 Lubiana Labachum See Labach Lublin Lublina a City of the Lesser Poland the Capital of a Palatinate of the same Name upon the River Bistricz twenty four Miles from Warsaw to the South twelve from Chelm to the West thirty six from Cracow to the South-East and seventy from Vilna It is a neat spruce populous City and has a Castle seated on a Hill The Palatinate of Lublin is one of the three which constitute the Lesser Poland and lies between Mazovia Red Russia and
there are many Hills and void spaces in it yet it is more populous than Florence and the Streets larger Dr. Brown in his Travels has given an exact account of it It seems to be a Place of great Antiquity and to be the Marobudum of Ptolemy John King of Bohemia took it from Henry Duke of Carinthia in 1311. The Inhabitants imprisoned Winceslaus their King in 1392. George Podiebrach the Revenger of the Perfidy of the Council of Constance took it in 1441. The University was opened here by Charles IV. Emperour of Germany in 1370. which has had above forty thousand Students at once in it especially in the time of John Hus about 1409. whose Doctrines were condemned in a Council assembled by the Archbishop of Prague here in 1405. according to the German Writers But it is most famous for the Defeat of the Protestant Forces near its Walls Novemb. 8. 1620. by Maximilian Duke of Bavaria which was after severely revenged in the Swedish Wars And in this City May 26. 1635. a Peace was made between the Emperour and his Protestant Subjects It lies fifteen German Miles from Budweiss to the North eighteen from Dresden and thirty eight from Vienna to the North-East A Fire endammaged it June 21. 1689. to the value as they computed it of two Millions Long. 36. 38. Lat. 50. 06. Pragoca Lithoproscopus a Mountain of Phoenicia between Tripoli and Botryn Prasobo Haemus a Mountain in Thrace Prato a small Town in the Province of Toscana in Italy upon the River Bisentio betwixt Florence and Pistoia Precop Pericop Procopias Procopiana Taurica Chersonesus Tartaria Precopensis Taphrae a City and strong Fort in the enterance of the Neck of Crim Tartary from whence that Peninsula is sometimes called Precopska and the Tartarian Inhabitants the Precopensian Tartars After the Muscovites obtained that great Victory over the Tartars in 1689. wherein they slew thirty thousand of them with one of the Han's Sons upon the place the Tartars retiring into the Crim abandoned Pericop to the Conquerours which is a most important Pass Premislaw Premislia a great and strong City in the Province of Russia properly so called in Poland which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Lemburgh standing upon the River San towards the Borders of Hungary Presburg Posonium Pisonium Flexum the Capital City of that part of Hungary which remained to the Emperour before his late Conquests called by the Hungarians Poson by the Germans Presburg by the Poles Prespurg It is seated upon the Danube eight German Miles from Vienna to the East and as many from Newheusel and Comora to the North-West seventy from Raab The Capital of a County of the same name between Austria Moravia and the Danube It has a considerable Castle built of White Stone on the top of an Hill a stately and beautiful Pile to preserve it from the Inroads of the Turks After Gran fell into the Hands of the Turks the Archbishops See was removed hither the Assemblies of the States of Hungary have been of late ever held in this City After Newheusel in 1662. fell into the Hands of the Turks it was fortisied being then a Frontier Prince Joseph Archduke of Austria the present Emperour's eldest Son was crown'd King of Hungary here Decemb. 9. 1687. That Clause in the one and thirtieth Article of King Andrew's Decrees in 1222 consented to by Ferdinand I. which makes it lawful for the Subjects to rise up in Arms against their Prince in the case of his acting contrary to Law being particularly excluded out of the Coronation-Oath by the Consent of the States of that Kingdom And the Crown thence forward to descend by Inheritance A Council was celebrated here in 1309. which Pope Clement V. confirmed Prerustine a Valley in Piedmont famous for a defeat of the Savoyards in 1663. by the Protestants of that Valley in the defence of their Lives contrary to the Faith given assaulted by sixteen thousand Horse and Foot which they forced to a Retreat with the loss of one thousand of the Assailants Prescot a Market Town in Lancashire in the Hundred of Darby Presteign a Market Town in the County of Radnor in Wales in the Hundred of Radnor Prester Johns Kingdom the same with Abyssinia in the Vpper Aethiopia But the Origine of this appellation of it is not so easily determined As whether coming from one Johannes Presbyter a Nestorian who in 1145. usurped the Crown of Tartary and might leave his Successors his name Or from Pretiosus Johannes which is the Latin Interpretation of the Title Belul-Gian that the Abyssines give their King Or from Preste Cham in the Persian Language signifying a Christian Emperour c. For we find no agreement either in Travellers or the Learned Etymologists about it And some moreover attribute this Kingdom not to Aethiopia but Tartary Preston a handsome large and populous Borough in Lancashire in the Hundred of Amounderness represented in the Lower House of Parliament by two Burgesses and honoured with the Court of Chancery and the Offices of Justice for Lancaster as a County Palatine It is seated upon the River Rible having a fair Stone Bridge over the same Preveza Nicopolis a City of Epirus called by Ptolemy and others Cassiopesa It is seated at the Mouth of the Gulph of Larta or Prevesa near the Shoars of the Ionian Sea between the Islands of Corfu and Sancta Maura a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Lepanto This City took the name of Nicopolis in the time of Augustus Caesar being built and so called by that Prince in memory of his Victory obtained at Actium near it over Antonius and Cleopatra in a Sea Fight In 1539. the Pope's and King of Spain's Galleys endeavoured to surprize it from the Turks but failed in the attempt In 1684. Morosini took it upon a surrender for the Venetians Long. 46. 20. Lat. 39. 25. Principato Citra Principatus Citerior the Hither Principate a Province in the Kingdom of Naples bounded on the North by the Further Principate and part of Terra di Lavoro on the West and South by the Tyrrhenian Sea and on the East by the Principate It is seventy Miles in length from the South-East to the North West The Capital of it is Salerno the other Cities are Amalfi Nocera Marsico Nuovo and Sarno A part of the Country of the ancient Picentini and Lucania lies contained in this Principate Principato Oltra Principatus Vlterior the Further Principate is a Province of the Kingdom of Naples Bounded on the East and North by the Capitinate the Terra di Lavoro to the West and the Hither Principate to the South Benevento is the Capital of it it has besides Conza Avellino Ariano and Cedogna in ancient times the greatest part of this Province belonged to the Church See Benevento Il principato di Val di Taro a Valley and small Province of Lombardy in Italy under the Duke of Parma through which the River of its own name
distinction from three other Rasens in the same Hundred which have not the privilege to be Market Towns Rasino Erasmus a River on the East of the Morea which falls into the Inacho and with it into the Bay di Napoli Romania Rathal Alhaga Arabia Petraea the Stony Arabia Ratibor Ratibora Ratisboria a small but spruce City in Silefia in Bohemia which is the Capital of a Dukedom upon the Oder Four German Miles from Karnow to the East seven from the Borders of the Lesser Poland and the same distance from Oppolen to the South This place was Mortgaged to Casimir King of Poland Ratispon Ratisbon Augusta Tiberii Ratispona Ratisbona Castra Regina Reginum Rhaetobonna Rhetopolis a City of Germany called by the Inhabitants Regenspurgh in the Circle of Bavaria and a Bishop's See under the Archbishop of Saltzburgh It was first a Roman City or Colony built by Tiberius Caesar afterwards the Seat of the Kings of Bavaria and after that of the Dukes of the same Title Frederick I. made it a Free Imperial City Henry the Lyon proscribed and degraded it and put it under the Dominion of Otho Wittelspach Duke of Bavaria It stands upon the Danube which is here covered by a Stone Bridge built by Hen V. in 1135 at the Confluence of the River Regen fifteen Miles from Munick to the North seventeen above Passaw to the West and sixteen from Ausburgh to the North-East Said to have been Converted to the Christian Faith by Lucius Cyrenaeus a Disciple of S. Paul in 69. The Bishoprick was Instituted by Charles the Great who held a Council in this City in 792. There have been many German Diets held here which for brevity I must omit This City has embraced the Augustane Confession Long. 34. 18. Lat. 49. 00. Ratzburgh Ratzemburg or Ratzebourg Raceburgum a City of Germany in the Lower Circle of Saxony which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Breme It is little and subject as to the City to the Duke of Meckelburgh but the Castle is in the Hands of the Duke of Lawemburgh Before the Peace of Westphalia in 1648. they were both subject to the Bishop by that Treaty they were thus settled and made a Principality This City embraced the Augustane Confession in 1566. by the procurement of Christopher the thirtieth Bishop of this See who was of the Family of Meckelburgh It stands upon a Lake of the same name three Miles from Lubeck to the South four from Lawemburgh and six from Swerin to the West Rava a City of Poland which is the Capital of a Palatinate of the same name seated upon a River called Rava too eleven Polish Miles from Plocko to the South and fifteen from Warsaw to the West The houses are all of Wood. It has a Fortress Ravello Rebellum Ravellum a City in the Further Principato in the Kingdom of Naples which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Salerno But in 1086. freed from his Jurisdiction by Pope Victor III. In 1603. the Bishoprick of Scala was for ever united to this from which it stands only two Miles and ten from Salerno to the West Ravenglass a Market Town in the County of Cumberland in the division of Allerdale encompassed on three parts of it by the Sea and the two Rivers betwixt which it stands Ravenna a City of Romandiola in Italy of great antiquity which is an Archbishops See and the Capital of that Province It stands on a marshy Ground forty five Miles from Bononia to the East thirty from Rimini forty two from Ferrara near the Shoars of the Adriatick Sea upon which it had a great Harbor now filled up with Sand. Built by the Sabins as Pliny saith as others by the Vmbrians about four hundred and ten years after the Flood A. M. 1766. In the latter times of the Roman Empire under Honorius it became the Seat of the Emperors fortified with new and strong Walls for that purpose Augustus had before made it the Station of his Fleets on the Adriatick Sea and made a noble Haven here which may be supposed to have contributed something to its growth and this change Theodorick King of the Goths in 493. took it after a Siege of three years and made it the Seat of his Kingdom In 539. Belisarius General under Justinian the Emperor recovered it to the Empire In 569. it became the Seat of the Exarchs or Vice-Roys of Italy under the Constantinopolitan Emperours In 725. it was Sacked by Luitprandus King of Lombardy upon the Emperors Edict against Images but recovered by the Exarch by the assistance of the Pope and the Venetians two years after In 752. Aristulphus King of the Lombards took it from the Greeks and drove out the Exarchs In 774. Charles the Great took it from the Lombards and gave it to the Church of Rome This City maintained a War against the Venetians in 1140. In 1441. the Venetians took it and kept it till 1509 when it was forced from them by a League of the Emperor King of France Pope the Duke of Milan and a joynt War of all these Princes upon them But the Pope salling out with the French King Lewis XII lost the City to him again and an Army of sixteen thousand Men in 1512 they were soon after sorced to desert it The Archbishops See was founded by Valentinian the Emperor about 425 and never subject to the Pope till 684 when the Pope after a great contest obtained this point from Constantinus Pogonatus Emperor of Greece who was a great admirer of the Sanctity of Benedict II. and with respect to that subjected this See to Rome There was a Council held here in 901. which confirmed all the proceedings of a Council at Rome under Pope John IX for the cassating of Pope Stephen VI. his Acts against the memory of Pope Formosus And another in 967 in the presence of Pope John XIII and the Emperor Otho I. touching the reformation of Ecclesiastical Discipline with divers others of the same subject The City is now in a declining condition and decays sensibly Long. 34. 53. Lat. 43. 54. Ravensberg Ravensberga a small Town which gives name to an Earldom in the Circle of Westphalia It stands upon an Hill eighteen Miles from Osnaburgh to the South thirty two from Paderborne to the North and thirty from Munster to the East The Earldom of Ravensberg is a small Territory between the Bishopricks of Minden and Osnaburgh to the North and West that of Munster to the South and the County of Lippe to the East The Capital of which is Bifeld This was subject to the Dukes of Juliers and now under the Duke of Brandenburgh in their Right Ravensburgh a small German City in the Circle of Schwaben in Algow upon the River Schuss six Miles from Constance to the East and three from Lindaw to the North an Imperial Free City It is sometimes written Ravenspurg and is of great antiquity Ravestein a Town upon the Maes in the Dukedom of
of Valois and the Diocese of Soissons upon the River Oise where there have been four Councils celebrated Uercelli as the French write Verceile Vercellae a City of Piedmont of great Antiquity which is a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Milan It stands upon the River Sesia in the Borders of the Duke of Milan and has a District called by its own name belonging to it betwixt Montferrat the Milanese and Ivrée ten Miles from Casal to the North and from Novara to the West thirty five from Milan East and from Turin West It is a very strong Place hath a Castle a Cittadel a famous Hospital and handsome Churches often taken and retaken in the late Wars and particularly in 1638 by the Spaniards who by the Pyrenean peace returned it as it is now under the Duke of Savoy In the time of the ancient Romans it flourished Since it hath been a Republick next under the Duke of Milan then Savoy In 1050. P. Leo XIX celebrated a Council at it against Berengarius Archdeacon of Anger 's who was cited but did not appear to the same Uerdun Verduna Veroduna Verodunum Virdunium Vereduna a City of Gallia Belgica mentioned by Antoninus now in the Dukedom of Lorain but separated from it by the French under whom it has been ever since 1552 when Henry II. took it A Bishops See under the Archbishop of Trier great strong and well Peopled seated upon the Maes which forms several small Islands here fifteen Leagues from Chaalons to the East twelve from Metz and thirteen from Tulle to the North. Some of its former Bishops have been Counts of Verdun and Princes of the Empire § There is a Territory and Town of the same name in the Province of Gascoigne Another Town in the County of Foix in Aquitain and another County in Bourgogne Der Uere Veria a small but strong City in the Province of Zealand in the Isle of Walcheren which has an Harbour one League from Middleburg to the East It belongs to the Prince of Orange Uerma a City and Kingdom in the Terra Firma of the East-Indies beyond the Ganges affording precious Stones Uermandois Veromanduensis Ager a County in Picardy which is an ancient Earldom between Tierache to the East Le Santerre to the West Cambray to the North and the Isle of France to the South the Capital is S. Quentin It took its name from Vermand Augusta Veromanduorum a ruined Roman Town which stood anciently in this County And was its Capital There now stands an Abbey in the place of it The ancient Veromandui dwelt here Uermelandia a Province of Sweden Uermio a Streight near New Mexico Uerneuil Vernolium a City in the Vpper Normandy upon the River Aure in the Borders of la Percbe sometimes called Vernevil au Perche eight Leagues from Dreux to the West and seven from Seez and Eureux to the South Famous for the overthrow the English gave the French in 1424 where four thousand five hundred French were slain upon the place and the Earl of Narbone being taken was hanged for assisting at the Massacre of John Duke of Burgundy Uernon Vernonium a City of Normandy upon the Seyne in the Diocese of Eureux over which it had a Bridge of Stone now ruined ten Leagues from Roan South seven from Eureux East and from Gisors West It had heretofore also a Palace Royal Palatium Vernis which in 755. and 844. was the Seat of two Councils Ueroli See Veruli Ueron a small Town near Sens in Champaigne in France remarked for a Fountain of such a nature as to petrifie the mire and moss through which it runs Uerona a City of Lombardy which is great and famous called by the Germans Dietrichs Bern. It is a Bishops See under the Patriach of Aquileja and the Capital of a Province of its own name called the Veronois It stands upon the River Adige over which it has four Bridges and three Castles thirty five Miles from Trent South twenty two from Mintoua North and sixty from Ferrara Built by the Gauls in the year of Rome 469. two hundred eighty two years before the Birth of Christ In the Civil Wars of Rome made a Roman Colony In 490. it was taken by Theodoricus who here overthrew â—doacer King of the Heruli and took the name of Veronensis In 901. Berengarius took it by bribing the Garrison In 1212 it was put under the House of Este after this the Family of the Scaligers were Lords of it seventy years and after them the Dukes of Milan In 1403. the Venetians obtained it from the Dutchess of Milan In 1509. Maximilian the Emperor took it but in 1516. it was restored to them and is now the best City in aâ—â— their Dominions except Venice Catullus the Poet was Born here Martial gives it the Epithet of Magna in Catullus's and his time Tantum Magna suo debet Veronâ— Catullo Quantum parâ—a suo Mantua Virgilio It s antient â—irque and Amphitheatre and many other noble Monuments remain yet extant Pope Lucius III. dyed here In 1542. and 1589. Synods were assembled at this City Long. 33. 10. Lat. 44. 35. Uerrua a strong fortified Town in Piedmont in the County of Asta upon the Banks of the Po and the Borders of the Dukedom of Montferrat sixteen Miles from Turin towards Casale upon an advanced ground In the Wars betwixt Piedmont and Ferrara a Sculpture was made upon the Gate of the Castle of a bunch of Grapes hanging over the head of a Swine and he in vain opening his mouth to catch it with this Inscription Quando questo porco pigliara l'Vva Il Marquese di Montferrato pigliara Verrua When this Hog shall catch the Grapes The Marquess of Montferrat shall take Verrua In the year 1625. The Spaniards besieg'd this Town under the Duke of Feria And to deride their attempt too in the same manner the Inhabitants put the name of the Duke of Feria in the place of the Marquess thus Quando questo porco pigliara l'Vva Il Duca di Feria Pigliara Verrua Accordingly the Spaniards miscarried Uersacgli the Turkish name of Pisidia a Province of the Lesser Asia Uersailles Versaliae a Town in the Isle of France where the present King of France has built a most Noble Palace since 1661 upon an eminence in the middle of an excellent Valley for hunting where before in the Reign of Lewis III. stood only an old indifferent Castle which was made the rendezvouze of parties of Hunters as they took or left the field In 1678. Lewis XIV rebuilt this Castle with the greatest Magnificence Many curious Buildings and noble Works have at several times been added for grandeur He makes this place his continual Residence and the Town of Versailles now accompanying the Pallace wholly oweth its beginning to him It stands four Leagues from Paris to the East and two from S. Clou. Uervin Vervins Verbinum a small Town in Picardy in the County of Tierache scarce four Leagues from the Borders of
the greatest part of Ireland yet when resistance was in vain it surrendred August 20. 1650 on good terms As also to King William both Town and Fort July 25 and 26 1690 without a stroke The County of Waterford is bounded on the East by Wexford on the North by Tipperary on the VVest by Cork and on the South by the Sea the Sewer enclosing it on the North and East and the More on the VVest The North parts of it are overspread with a Ridge of Mountains called Slewboyne It is from East to VVest twenty seven Irish Miles from North to South fifteen The principal places in it are Waterford and Lismore Watford a Market Town in Hartfordshire in the Hundred of Chashio near the River Coln Watlington a Market Town in Oxfordshire in the Hundred of Pirton Watton a Market Town in the County of Norfolk in the Hundred of Weyland Waveney a River in the County of Suffolk dividing that County from Norfolk Beckles and Bungay are situated upon the Banks of it Webley a Market Town and Corporation in Herefordshire in the Hundred of Stretford Represented in Parliament by its two Burgesses Weever a River watering the middle parts of Cheshire upon which Nantwich and Fordsham are situated Weigats Streight a Bay upon the South of Nova Zembla flowing from VVest to East and discovered by the Hollanders under one of this Name in 1594 through which they in vain sought a North Passage to the East Indies by China not being able to sail further for Ice They discovered to the East and VVest of this Streight Staten Eylandt and Mauritz Eylandt in the same Voyage whereon they found Rocks Lakes Ponds Swans Hawks and VVild Ducks Weill Vuila a City in the Dukedom of Wurtemburg which is a free Imperial City by the Constitution of Frederick II it stands upon the River Wurm two Miles from Stutgard to the VVest and Spire to the South and three from Tubingen to the North. Hofman § Another in Switzerland belonging to the Canton of S. Gall. Weimar Weinmar Vimaria a City of Thuringia in Germany upon the River Ilm three German Miles from Erford to the East and five from Naumburg which was the Seat of Otho Emperor of Germany Now under a Duke of the House of Saxony Weismar Weismaria one of the Hanse Towns of Germany in the Dukedom of Mecklenburgh which has a Harbor on the Baltick Sea and a new strong Castle It stands between Rostock to the East and Lubeck to the VVest seven German Miles from either Built about the year 1240 by a Count of Swerin In 1262 it was almost entirely ruined by Fire In 1266 the Duke of Mecklenburg gave it great Privileges to encourage the rebuilding of it which procured the building it with Stone By the Peace of Munster it was assigned to the Swedes but being taken by the Danes in 1679 tho by the Treaty in 1679 they were to restore it yet that Crown has not performed that Article Weissell See Vistula Weissemburg Weissemburgum a City of Bavaria in the Territory of Aichstadt near the Fountains of Rednitz four German Miles from Donawert to the North seven from Norimberg and five from Newburg This is a Free Imperial City Weissemburg a City of Alsatia in the Territory of Wasgow towards the Borders of the Palatinate of the Rhine called Cron Weisemburg to distinguish it from the former which is a Town in Alsatia of old called Sebusium It stands upon the River Luter four German Miles from Hagenaw to the North and six from Strasburg Dagobert King of France built here a celebrated Monastery in the year 623 which in the year 1496 was changed into a College By the Peace of Munster this place was granted to France and in the Wars in 1673 it suffered very much from the Germans but is now rebuilding This City is the Capital of a Territory called die Prebstey von Weissemburg the Prefecture of Weissemburg which in the year 1540 was united for ever to the Bishoprick of Spire Lauterburg was the usual Seat of the President of this District but is now under the French King too Weissenburg Alba Julia a City in Transylvania called by the Hungarians Gyvla Fejervar It is a Roman Colony setled in the times of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus from whose Mother it had its Latin Name and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Colocza It stands upon the River Ompay which a little lower falls into the Marish in a fruitful Plain between Clausenburg to the North-West and Hermanstad to the South seven German Miles from either The usual Residence of the Prince of Transylvania It has been much greater than now it is and affords rare Roman Medals Coins and Inscriptions the evident Symptoms of its Antiquity and Grandeur Garrisoned for the Emperor in 1687. Long. 47. 00. Lat. 46. 05. Weland a River in Northamptonshire upon which Rockingham stands Welch-poole a Market Town in the County of Montgomery in Wales in the Hundred of Ystrad March. Welika-reca Turuntus the same with Narva a River of Moscovy Welles Belgae Wellae Theorodunum Fontes Fontanensis Ecclesia a City of Somersetshire so called from the VVells and plentiful Springs which bubble up in it for fair Buildings it exceeds all other Towns in that County It hath an Episcopal Palace fortified with Walls and a Mote like a Castle a goodly Church and a College founded by Ina a Saxon King in honor of S. Andrew which was enlarged by King Kinewolph in the year 766. The Cathedral Church has a Dean a Chaunter a Chancellor three Archdeacons twenty seven Prebends and nineteen Canons There was a Bishoprick founded here in the year 905 by Edward the Elder which about the year 1088 was united to Bath In the year 1193 the Bishoprick of Glastenbury being also united to these two Sees the Revenues of the Church of wells were divided between the Dean and the Chapter which were much impaired in the Reign of Edward VI. Wellingborough a Market Town in Northamptonshire in the Hundred of Huxlon upon an ascent large and well frequented accommodated with a Free School and adorned with a handsom Church Wellington a Market Town in Somersetshire in the Hundred of Milverton upon the River Tone § Another in Shropshire in the Hundred of S. Bradford Wem a Market Town in the North of Shropshire in the Hundred of N. Bradford upon the River Roder honoured with the Title of a Barony by King James II in the Person of the late Lord Chancellor Jeffreys Wendover a Market Town and Corporation in Buckinghamshire in the Hundred of Aylesbury having the honour of the Election of two Parliament Men. Wenlock Magna a Market Town and Corporation in Shropshire the Capital of its Hundred represented in the lower House of Parliament by two Burgesses Were Vera a River which runs through the Bishoprick of Durham and watering the Capital City where it makes a Peninsula and hath three Bridges covering it falls at Sunderland into the German Ocean Werne or Wuerne the
was created Earl of Bath in the 19th of Charles I. Aug. 13. 1643. His Father Sir Bevil Greenvil having been slain at Landsdown near this City by the Rebels It stands 15 Miles East of Bristol Long. 20. 16. Lat. 51. d. 21. m. Bathon a Valley in Macedonia where the Antients believed the Gyants Combated with the Gods Pausanias says they used to represent the manner of this Fight in some Sacrifices Baticala a small City of the East-Indies the Capital of a Kingdom of the same Name the Prince whereof is a Tributary to the King of Bisnagar tho it is very small yet it has a capacious Haven § There is another of the same Name in the Island Ceylan which is the Capital of a Kingdom there and lately fallen into the Hands of the Hollanders Baticano a Promontory in Calabria in the Maps sometimes call'd Vaticano Battel a Town in Sussex Remarkable in the English History for the Victory of William the Conquerour here obtain'd over King Harold Octob. 14. 1066. In memory whereof he built an Abbey of the Name call'd Battel-Abbey It is a Market-Town in Hastings Rape Batter a large Province in Asia heretofore call'd Bactriana which see Batta a Province of the Kingdom of Congo in Africa Batten or Button an Island in the Indian Ocean to the West of the Island of Macassar Los Batuecos a People in the Kingdom of Leon in Spain inhabiting the Mountains betwixt Salamanca and Corica They are believed to descend from the Goths Bavais Bagacum Bagacum Nerviorum a very antient Town in Hainault in Flanders about 4 Leagues from Valenciennes and 6 from Mons. It was twice burnt in the last Age and repair'd again The Cerque Aqueduct and Inscriptions here are sufficient marks of its Antiquity It stands upon the little River Osneau Bavari Boij Bojares the first of the antient Germans that passed the Alps and fixed their Standards upon the Banks of Tiber. They carried their victorious Arms even into Greece beyond the Hellespont These were the antient Inhabitants of Bavaria See Bavaria Baudisten a Town in Lusatia a Territory belonging to the Elector of Saxony between Misnia and Bohemia where the Governour resides Bauge a small Town in Anjou in France where Charles VIII then Dolphin obtain'd a signal Victory against the English commanded by the Duke of Clarence who was there slain in 1420. It stands 3 Leagues from La Fleche upon the River Covesnon Built by the old Earls of Anjou § Another in the Province of Bresse in the same Kingdom giving the Title of a Marquess besides its Name to a Family who have been the Sovereigns of Bresse above 400 years In Latin Balgiacum the other Balgium Baugenci Balgentiacum a Town upon the Loyre In the Province of Orleans betwixt Blois and Orleans In 1152. a Council here Assembled to take Cognisance of the degree of Parentage betwixt Lewis VII King of France and Eleanor his Wife Dutchess of Guienne Daughter to William X. the last Duke of Aquitain which said Degree of Parentage rendred their Marriage nulland void from the beginning pronounced sentence of Divorce betwixt them whereupon the said Princess remarried to Henry Duke of Normandy afterwards Henry II. King of England and in her Right Aquitane fell to the Crown of England In 1428. the English took Baugenci under the Command of the Earl of Salisbury but abandoned it to the French the the Year after For some time it continued under particular Sovereigns who bought and sold it till the Year 1543. by arrest of Parliament it was united to the Demains of the Crown of France Baulme a Town in the higher Burgundy or Franche Comte 2 small Leagues from hence you see a natural deep and spacious Cave in the Earth which furnishes the Country with continual Ice in the Summer and in the Winter flows with Water Bauman a vast Cave in the County of Regenstein in the lower Saxony where they find numbers of Bones of divers Animals and sometimes of Men as big as Gyants Bautrey a Market Town in the West Riding of Yorkshire in the Hundred of Strafford Bautzen Budisinum the principal Town of Lusatia in Germany seated upon the River Sprew 7 Leagues from Dresden East This place being attacked by the Duke of Saxony in the Year 1634 Goltz the Governor for the Emperor firing the Suburbs to give the Enemy a stop the fire in the confusion seized the Town and burnt it all down many Persons perishing in the Flames This place was thereupon left to the Elector of Saxony who is still possessed of it but before it was a Free and Imperial City Bayonue Baiona Boiatum a very large rich strong City seated upon the River Adour about 2 Leagues from the Sea in the Confines of the Kingdoms of France and Spain honored with a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Ausch and has a large Haven on the Brittish Sea It stands 6 Leagues from the Confines of Spain 7 from Dax to the West and 30 from Bourdeaux to the South There was a famous Congress in this City between Charles IX with Catharine de Medices his Mother and Elisabeth Sister of Charles Wife to Philip II. King of Spain in which an Agreement was closely made between the two Crowns to ruin the Protestant Religion both in France and the Low Countries which was followed by Rivers of Human Blood shed on that account this was in the Year 1566 and mentioned by Thuanus and Grotius § Also a Town in the Kingdom of Galicia in Spain near the mouth of the River Minho which falls into the Atlantick Ocean betwixt it and Lima. Baux a Town in Provence in France giving the Title of a Marquiss it is situated upon a Rock with a good Castle thereto near Arles There is an illustrious House of this Name in Provence and it is uncertain whether that has denominated the Castle of Baux or the Castle it Babaria called by the Germans Beyeren a Dukedom in Germany the second Circle in the Empire having its name from the Avares a People of the Huns who possessed this Country It is also call'd Bojaria from the Boii of France who once dwelt here And in the times of the Roman Empire Noricum Bounded on the North by Franconia on the West by Schwaben on the South by the Italian Alpes and on the the East by Austria and Bohemia Before the Treaty and Peace of Westphalia it had lesser Bounds but then it was not only raised in Honor the Duke of Bavaria being made the VIII Elector but enlarged as to its Extent This Country had Kings after it was Conquered from the Romans to the times of Arnolphus the Emperour and S. Lewis is said to have declared his Son Lewis King of Bavaria in the Year 817. From those times to ours they have had Dukes the first was Arnolphus slain by the Normans about the Year 891. The greatest part of this Country is Fruitful and well cultivated and has many noble and stately Cities the principal of
which is Munchen Monachium seated on the Isar The Family thereof gain'd the Upper Palatinate by the Peace of Munster He is of the Communion of the Church of Rome and the far greatest part of his Subjects by which and their new Grants and Dignities they are very firmly united to the House of Austria which the present Emperor has improved by Marrying his Daughter to the now Duke of Bavaria Baz Ocite a small Island on the West of Ireland over against the Earldom of Desmond in the Province of Munster North of the Bay of Dingle call'd by the Irish Blasquo Baza Basti a City of the Kingdom of Granada in Spain It was once a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Eluire at which time it was well Fortified but now it is little inhabited and every day decays it stands upon the Borders of the Kingdoms of New Castile and Murcia 6 Leagues from Guadix to the South-East 15 from Granato and Gaen or Jaen to the North-East and 16 from Almeria to the North it is built at the Foot of an Hill in a Valley call'd from it Hoya de Baya by an inconsiderable Brook Bazadois Vasata a small Territory in the Lower Guienne in France which has the River Garonne on the North and West Agenois on the East and Condomois on the South It has its name from Bazas the principal City of it and a Bishops See under the Archbishop of Ausch this City stands searce 3 Miles from the River Garonne towards the South 7 from Bourdeaux to the North-East 10 from Condomois and 17 from Ausch It is mentioned by the Antients under the name of Cossium Vasatum Civitas Vasatica and Vasatae Arehosae And likewise the People of the Territory of Bazadois by the name of Vasates who were the same perhaps with the Cocosates of Pliny and Cesar Bazaim Barace a vast Tract of Land but very barren which lies between Egypt and the Kingdom of Tunis in Africa the same which was called Marmarica as Bochart saith § Also a Town in the Kingdom of Guzurate in the hither East-Indies situated upon the Coast of the Gulph of Cambaia 26 Leagues from Daman to the South It has been in the hands of the Portuguese ever since the Year 1534. who have built a good Cittadel with several stately Churches in it and made it a fine Town therefore fuller of Gentry than Goa insomuch that Fidalgos de Bazaim a Gentleman of Bazaim is become a Proverb with the Portuguese Bazano a Mountain of Abruzzo in the Kingdom of Naples in the Territory of Aquila of which mention is made in the Life of S. Justin Bazas See Bazadois Bazois a District in France in the Dukedom of Nivernois Beaconsfield a Market-Town in Buckinghamshire in the Hundred of Burnham on a small Hill Beareford was a small Monastery built by the Danes in Greenland about 300 Years since but now a long time ago deserted and ruined Bearne a fruitful and well Watered Territory in the South of France advanced to the Honor of a Principality It lies at the foot of the Pyrenean Mountains which part it from the Kingdom of Aragon towards the South upon the East it has the County of Bigorre and Armagnac le Noir upon the North Gascogny and upon the West the Kingdom of Navarr This Country had heretofore Princes of its own one of which by a Marriage with Elenora Queen of Navarr united it to that Kingdom Henry IV. brought it to the Crown of France and by a Decree it was annexed for ever to that Kingdom in 1620. Beaucaire a small City in the Province of Languedoc in France upon the River Rhosne right over against Tarascon 4 Leagues from Avignon towards the South and 3 from Arles towards the North most remarkable for its Fairs It is called in Latin Belloquadra This Town was taken and retaken in the Civil Wars of France It had a Castle in it built upon a Rock to the River side which the last King commanded to be demolished Beauce or Beausse Belsia a Province of France that heretofore was of very large extent but is now much less and the Bounds not well known It lies between the Loyre on the South and the Seyn to the North the principal Towns in it are Chartres Chasteaudun Montoir Pluviers Estampes and Vendosme This Province lying so near to Paris a considerable part of it has been taken into the Isle of France The Soil is dry but very fruitful and abounding in all things especially Corn so that it is called totius Galliae Horreum the Store-house or Granary of all France Beauchamp a place near Calais in Picardy The Duke of Somerset is Baron of Beauchamp Beaufort a Castle in the Dukedom of Anjou in France which belonged heretofore to the House of Lancaster and was much beloved by John of Gaunt who caused all his Children that he had by Catharine Swinford to be called Beauforts who were afterwards Dukes of Somerset and Exeter and Earls of Dorset The most noble Henry Somerset late Marquess of Worcester being descended from the antient Dukes of Somerset was December 2. 1682. by Charles II. of most blessed Memory created Duke of Beaufort This Castle lies about 3 Leagues East of Angiers and 2 from the Loyre And is now possessed by the House of Beaumanoir-Lavardin with the inferiour Title of an Earl from the King of France § There is another Beaufort in Champagne this is a small Town but honored above the other with the Title of a Dutchy by Henry le Grand in the year 1597. which Title has been granted by Lewis XIII to the House of Vendosme Beaujalois a small Country contained in the Lyonnois a Province in France with the Title of a Barony It takes its name from the Town Beaujeu in Latin Bdujovium or Beltiecum upon the River Ardiere the same does the House of Beaujeu Beaumaris a Town in the Island of Anglesey with a Port to the River Menay It is called in Latin Bellomariscus and Elects one Burgess for the Parliament Beaumont in Argonne a Town in the little Country of Argonne near the Mense in France It suffered much in the Civil Wars of that Kingdom Beaumont sur Oyse a Town upon the Oyse at the foot of an Hill in the Isle of France about 8 Leagues from Paris towards the North. Beaumont le Roger a Town in the Dukedom of Normandy in France upon the River Rugle Four Leagues from Eureux towards the West and about 6 from Roan towards the South so called from Roger one of its Counts who built or at least enlarged it it having the Honor to give that Title § There is another Town called Beaumont also near the Sea Shoar in the District belonging to Coutance three Leagues West of Cherbourg Beaumont a Town of Hainaut in the Netherlands adorned with the Title of a Dukedom to which belongs a Castle it stands 7 Leagues from Mons to the South-East and 4 from Chimay to the North and about 2 from